Brookland-Cayce High School held its Homecoming Parade Friday afternoon. The BC Marching Band,  Homecoming Queen contestants,  football players who sponsor them, and Class Floats were part of the festivities. Here are some photos. Click on a photo to enlarge it.  

Wise Elliot Pillow, Jr. of Gaston has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. Pillow, 59, has been  arrested by the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. He  is accused of soliciting nude photos from a minor, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office. Pillow was already a registered sex offender, according to the AG’s […]

Donald Merckle and the Blacksmiths w/ Mississippi Kites will play the CMC Steel Rhythm on the River Concert Series. It’s Sunday from 2- 5 p.m. at the West Columbia Riverwalk Amphitheatre.

Construction of a new bridge on Leaphart Road, over I-26 in West Columbia, started last Friday. Leaphart Road has a heavy traffic volume. It is used as a route to Lexington 2’s Pineview Elementary School for buses and in the transport of students by cars. SCDOT Resident Construction Engineer Robert Power said the existing bridge […]

The Airport Eagles go on the road for the third straight week Friday in high school football. Airport goes to play Richland-Northeast at 7:30 p.m. The Eagles are 1-3 and RNE is 3-1.

A contractor for the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) started the replacement of the Rainbow Drive bridge over Interstate 26 in Springdale, last Friday (Sept. 23.) The bridge replacement construction could take two years. A 2.84 mile detour will be in place, with signs posted directing motorists around the road closure by using Platt Springs […]

Brookland-Cayce High School’s Homecoming football game vs Gray Collegiate Academy is Friday at 7:30 p.m. A food truck festival featured before the game. It’s from 4 -until-8 p.m. on State Street in front of Brookland-Cayce High School. Food Trucks include: Pelican Snowballs San Jose Taco Truck Wolf Pizza Truck Dippin Dogs corn dogs Chicken on a stick […]

The new Lexington 2  elementary school is beginning to take shape. Groundbreaking for the school was April 18. Since then, trees have been cleared and construction is in full swing. Don Isenhower, Lexington 2’s operations chief, said progress on the new elementary school being built off of 12th Street Extension in Cayc e is positive. […]